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My younger son has a very nice Mustang GT that he bought 3 years ago. He takes very good care of it, and I've helped him do some upgrades to it. Well earlier this week, he said he had to have the brakes done, and he wanted to upgrade from stock rotors and pads, to "performance" parts. Then I made the "mistake."

He asked if we could do the job, instead of taking it to a shop. Well, I have all the tools necessary, and over the years I've done a lot of my own car mechanics. So I said, yeah, we'll do it on Sunday.

Good "Summer Solstice" to you all. Yes it's the 21st of June, which is the longest day of sunlight for the year. While that sounds innocent enough, the fact is that throughout history, the Summer solstice has been associated with "harvest, sex and fertility".

For thousands of years, all manner of interesting customs have been passed from generation to generation, and almost universally it involves romance and sex.

Hello everyone, welcome back from your weekend. As always, I hope it was a great one for you all. Ironically, after putting out the Financial Intelligence Report concerning taking the time to "smell the roses", this weekend was pretty anticlimactic. Instead of exploring a new trail or enjoying a nice bike ride to the beach, I spent the weekend cleaning up mom's yard.

Good morning folks, welcome back from your weekend. I hope you all had a great mothers day, and spent some real quality time with them. For those of you who have already lost your mom, I'm sure you spent some time yesterday reflecting on how great she was.

Our Moms day was just fine with me. For the first time in months, we had a slow steady rain that started at about 1 pm, and lasted into dark. That kept us all inside, and we spent the day with my mom, just watching some TV and chatting. It was fine with me. Oh, and not to mention the fantastic dinner we put together for her. Yes, it was a fine day.

Good morning everyone, and yes it's another one of those Friday's again. I'm simply amazed at how fast they sneak up on us.

So, the market did it's breakout thing on Wednesday and Thursday it decided to keep the party going. As I had told you all over the last month, that if the market resolves itself to the upside, and finally gets over it's 50 days, it could be powerful. Well it has been.

Okay so we got our DOW 20K and yesterday we spent the session digesting that move. While the DOW managed to inch higher, gaining 32, the S&P couldn't stay green and ended the day down a point. However once again there was horrible volume. At the end of the day the SPY only traded 60 million shares. To put that in perspective, back on Nov 9th when they all decided that a Trump win might indeed end up being okay, the volume was 259 million. When you get an up day ( or down for that matter) on big volume, you know the move is confirmed. It shows that a "lot" of people traded a LOT of stock.

Yesterday I was still trying to figure out if we were looking at a one day wonder, or if they were really intent on pushing the market back up towards the upper ranges of the "box" we've been in for months. Because Thursday and Friday were red, seeing a green day on Monday wasn't unusual. The question was....was it sustainable.